<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Douglas,<div><br></div><div>there are no plans to remove DLZ yet. If we ever decide to remove this, we will follow <a href="https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/wikis/Policy-for-removing-named.conf-options">https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/wikis/Policy-for-removing-named.conf-options</a></div><div><br></div><div>This basically means that the earliest date for removal of this feature would be 4+ years in the future, but in this case it is unlikely to happen unless we speak to Samba project and have a clear path for you to go ahead. We are not going to pull the rug from under you.</div><div><br></div><div>Ondrej<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him)<div><br></div><div>My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 4. 2. 2026, at 0:54, Douglas Bagnall via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>hi</span><br><span></span><br><span>According to the 9.20.4 release notes,</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>the DLZ interface itself is going to be scheduled for removal</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>but I haven't seen more detail about that scheduling (or scheduling of</span><br><span>the scheduling).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Is there a likely time frame for this?</span><br><span></span><br><span>The Samba project uses DLZ. We are well aware of its problems, but it</span><br><span>will not be easy for us to move to dyndb, because we need to make</span><br><span>complicated authorization decisions to match Active Directory semantics.</span><br><span></span><br><span>cheers,</span><br><span>Douglas Bagnall</span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list.</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>